88th Annual Meeting (20-24 January 2008)

Session 9A: General Climate Studies: Climate Dynamics

Wednesday, 23 January 2008: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
215-216 (Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Chair:  Toshiaki Shinoda, NOAA-CIRES/CDC
Papers:
  8:30 AM
Zonal jet structure and the leading mode of variability
Dennis L. Hartmann, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and S. J. Eichelberger

  8:45 AM
Evolution and Structures of Tropical Instability Waves in the Pacific Ocean and Its Interannual Variation
Toshiaki Shinoda, NRL, Stennis Space Center, MS; and G. Kiladis and P. E. Roundy

Poster PDF (917.8 kB)
  9:00 AM
An investigation of cold-air cyclogenesis along the East Coast of the United States
Christopher J. Warren, Plymouth State Univ., Plymouth, NH; and E. G. Hoffman

  9:15 AM
Impact of Polar night jet on the Ural blocking circulation in boreal winter
Wen Zhou, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China; and L. Wang, W. Chen, J. Chan, and R. H. Huang

  9:30 AM
Dynamical aspects of the 1993 upper Mississippi River Basin floods
Ana M. B. Nunes, SIO/Univ. of California, La Jolla, CA; and J. Roads

  9:45 AM
Indian ocean influences on North Atlantic climate
Prashant Sardeshmukh, CDC/CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and S. I. Shin